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Lethal Weapon 4

1998 · directed by Richard Donner · 127 min
21,752 feet · Prominence
1,790th of 15,261 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw72

$285m worldwide in 1998 — $578m in today's money.

As released$285mIn 2026 money$578mRank483 of 8,589In 199810 of 165

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise47

Critics 47, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 47.

Critics47 → 23Awards0 → 0

No award rows on file. The awards pass reads Wikidata, which is thin for older and non-English films, so an empty ledger is usually missing data rather than an absence of honours.

How Praise works

Half critics, half a tiered award record where Picture and Directing carry most of the weight. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy32

Judged directly: Tired final Lethal Weapon.

Verdict32 of 100IMDb6.6 from 179kWikipedia16k views a monthAge28 years

Scored beside it · 1,748 of 3,430 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 72 praise 47 legacy 32averages 50, which places it at21,752 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

In these careers — elevation for this film

Mel Gibson22,677 ftRene Russo21,665 ft